314 CITY OF BALTIMORE. [ART. 4.

807*. The following persons, to wit: Charles Howard, William
H. Gatchell, Charles D. Hinks, and John W. Davis, of the city
of Baltimore, are hereby appointed the first commissioners under
this article, and so soon as they shall have been qualified by
taking and subscribing to the oaths or affirmations hereinbefore
mentioned, they shall divide themselves into two equal classes,
to be determined by lot, and the two who shall be drawn of the
first class, shall serve from the time of their appointment until
the end of two years from and after the tenth day of March,
eighteen hundred and sixty, and until their successors shall have
been appointed and qualified; and the two who shall be drawn
of the second class, shall serve from the time of their appoint-
ment until the end of four years from and after the tenth day
of March, eighteen hundred and sixty, and until their sucriessors
shall have been appointed and qualified; when the division into
classes as herein prescribed shall have taken place, notice thereof
shall be at once given to the Governor by the commissioners, in
writing, to be filed in the State department.

80S*. The duties of the Board of Police hereby created shall
be as follows: they shall, at all times of the day and night,
within the boundaries of the city of Baltimore, as well on water
as on land, preserve the public peace, prevent crime, and arrest
offenders; protect the rights of person and property, guard the
public health, preserve order at every public election and at all
public meetings and places, and on all public occasions; prevent
and remove nuisances in all streets, highways, waters and other
places; provide a proper police force at every fire, for the pro-
tection of firemen and property; protect strangers, emigrants
and travellers, at steam boat and ship landings and railway sta-
tions ; see that all laws relating to elections and to the observance
of Sunday, and regarding pawn-brokers, gambling, intempe-
rance, lotteries and lottery policies, vagrants, disorderly persons,
slaves and free negroes, and the public health, are enforced; and
also enforce all laws and all ordinances of the mayor and city
council of Baltimore, not inconsistent with the provisions of
this article or any other law of the State, which may be properly
enforceable by a police force; in case they shall have reason to
believe that any persons within said city intend to commit any
breach of the peace, or violation of law or order, beyond the
city limits, upon the Chesapeabe Bay, or any river, creek, or
other place on land or water, within this State, it shall also be
their duty to cause such persons to be followed, and to take the
most effectual measures for the suppression and prevention of